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People try nonviolence for a week and when it doesn't 'work' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.

- Theodore Roszak

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

- African Proverb

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.

- Helder Camara

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

- William E. Gladstone

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

- Abraham Lincoln

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

- Desmond Tutu

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.

- Helder Camara

Historians are among the major enemies of the human race, interested only in the glorification of war and the despicable concept of national greatness.

- Kenneth Boulding

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Milan Kundera

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

- Dave Dellinger

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

- Mark Twain